[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: adobe question

[Adam wilson]

An interesting note, maybe, was that my last house I lived in (Michigan) was 
made of adobe, circa 1850.  It's still standing, the outside looks real good 
actually.

Adam


>From: "Drew A. Gillett P.E." <deaneg at hotmail.com>
>To: "Lawrence Lile" <LLile at projsolco.com>,"Alan Abrams" 
><alan at abramsdesignbuild.com>,"Linda Lloyd" 
><greenshelter at madriver.com>,"Greenbuilding" 
><greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
>Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK]  Re:  adobe question
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:38:48 -0500
>
>i once brought an adobe brick back to massachusetts from nm,  it melted
>within a couple years outdoors on the ground.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lawrence Lile" <LLile at projsolco.com>
>To: "Alan Abrams" <alan at abramsdesignbuild.com>; "Linda Lloyd"
><greenshelter at madriver.com>; "Greenbuilding"
><greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: adobe question
>
>
> >A guy I knew had a single asphalt adobe brick he was showing off to me.
> > He left it out in the rain in Missouri (>35" rain per year, mostly
> > dumped 2" at a time in gullywashers) and it was unaffected.  I'd say the
> > asphalt would make Adobe more widely usable.  You could say the same
> > thing for a big overhang on the roof and a layer of lime plaster on the
> > surface, though.
> >
> >
> >
> > Lawrence Lile, P.E., LEED AP
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> > [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Alan
> > Abrams
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:39 PM
> > To: 'Linda Lloyd'; 'Greenbuilding'
> > Subject: [BULK] Re: [Greenbuilding] adobe question
> > Importance: Low
> >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > they had an adobe house on HGTV last night and the guy showed how he
> > made
> > his blocks and he added asphalt emulsion to the mix ????
> >
> > I thought adobes were all natural materials
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > Back in the seventies, in the Espanola Valley of NM, I built my first
> > house
> > with adobes; a 600 sf cottage using about 2000 bricks.  (I carried them
> > 100
> > at a time in my '61 Ford half ton until I bent the rear axel on the
> > washboard road, thenceforth 75 at a time.)  They were made a mile up the
> > road using the local hardpan soil shoveled into a tag-along mortar mixer
> > (by
> > some unnamed alembristas, working for the local patron for the summer).
> > I
> > think I paid $0.15 a brick.
> >
> > The mix included some chopped straw and nothing else.  The 10"x14"x3
> > 1/2"
> > thick sun dried bricks could be held waist high and dropped to the
> > ground
> > (usually) without breaking.  I made the mortar on site from a similar
> > mix,
> > sans straw.
> >
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